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International

Bolivia’s general strike intensifies

Mass protests brought Bolivia’s major cities to a halt last week amid a nationwide strike

19 May 2026

International

Historic defeat for Bolivia’s left

Mas won only just over 3 percent of the vote

21 August 2025

International

International round up: Coronavirus worldwide

The total number of Covid-19 cases worldwide has now exceeded 120 million, with more than 2,670,000 dead.

16 March 2021

International

Win for left in Bolivian vote

After almost a year of an unelected right wing government backed by the US, the people of Bolivia have voted to remove the coup regime.

19 October 2020

News

Governments’ failures mean coronavirus accelerates across the world

The World Health Organisation recorded the highest daily number of new cases globally on Saturday.

02 August 2020

Socialist Review Archive

Evo Morales, the coup and popular resistance

A combination of local capitalist forces and US imperialism lies behind the coup in Bolivia. But, as Andy Brown explains, the picture is more complicated, with Morales’s own political aims being partly to blame for his lack of support, giving the right the opportunity to overthrow him.

04 December 2019

International

More revolts in Latin American countries

Strikes in Peru and Colombia have marked the spread of revolt

26 November 2019

Alex Callinicos

Neoliberalism takes revenge in Bolivia

Bad things have been happening lately in Latin America. But the worst to date is the right wing coup in Bolivia

19 November 2019

International

Vicious coup in Bolivia forces out president Evo Morales

Bolivia’s president Evo Morales has been forced out by a coup. It was orchestrated by the army and police—and backed by Donald Trump and the US.

11 November 2019

In Depth

Latin America and the rise of the right

How the Pink Tide ebbed and what can be done to stop the reactionaries

05 February 2019

International

Brazil: Workers Party crisis shows limit of left’s strategy

As the right moves to overturn left governments in South America, important political arguments have been raised, writes Dave Sewell

30 March 2016

International

Evo Morales wins third term in Bolivia

Bolivians overwhelmingly re-elected Evo Morales as president for a third term last Sunday with over 60 percent of the vote.

14 October 2014

In Depth

Bolivia 1952 – what did the socialists do?

The nationalists were not the only revolutionary opposition in Bolivia. The Workers’ Revolutionary Party (POR) was one of the world’s biggest Trotskyist organisations.

03 April 2012

In Depth

Bolivia 1952 – a glimpse of workers’ power

This month, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bolivia’s revolution of 1952. Despite brutal repression, poverty and a low level of development, the stranglehold of the tin barons and the political elite was broken through revolutionary struggle.

03 April 2012

Socialist Review Archive

Letter from Bolivia

The Bolivian government is launching a counter-offensive against the very successful and popular campaign of the indigenous peoples from Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis). This is a massive rainforest in which a number of indigenous nations either live or depend on.

01 January 2012

In Depth

Evo Morales’ wrong turn in Bolivia

In August this year, a march of 4,000 indigenous people set off from the Isiboro Secure National Park, a protected Amazon region in eastern Bolivia known as Tipnis.

18 October 2011

International

Bolivia: Police attack indigenous marchers

Bolivia’s left wing president Evo Morales was forced to apologise on Wednesday after police attacked an indigenous people’s march.

04 October 2011

Socialist Review Archive

Mass revolt against poverty in Bolivia

The streets of the city of Potosí, 600 kilometres south east of the capital, La Paz, are desolate, distended with the uncollected garbage of 18 days of general strike and popular revolt against poverty.

01 September 2010

News

Bolivia climate conference: The poor take charge of battle for the planet

There are now two sides in global climate politics – theirs and ours.

27 April 2010

News

20,000 at Bolivia climate conference

Some 20,000 people gathered for a "people’s conference on climate change" in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week.

20 April 2010

International

Letter from Bolivia: Evo Morales re-elected with a mandate for change

Barely two hours after the voting for Bolivia’s president had ended last Sunday, Movement towards Socialism (MAS) supporters began to fill Plaza Murillo, the heart of the capital of La Paz.

08 December 2009

International

Right wing violence is shaking Bolivia

Masked groups of young men smash their way into government offices, burning documents and destroying everything they can find.

16 September 2008

News

Rejecting the right in Bolivia

It is impossible to visit Bolivia and not be marked by the heady atmosphere of solidarity and popular political engagement. These elements continue to dominate the mass of the oppressed majority.

19 August 2008

International

Fight for Bolivia’s future lies behind referendum

Bolivia is at a crossroads once again. A referendum last weekend on increased autonomy for the country’s largest state had one clear purpose – to undermine the democratically elected government of Evo Morales.

06 May 2008

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